Airports You've Transited Through In Cities You've Never Visited

dredgy · Tue Apr 26, 2022 8:05 am

Almost none. Just Salt Lake City I think.
And Bahrain I’ve never visited the city as well as I would like - first time was in 2011 and so I had limited freedom of movement for safety reasons and saw really very little.

NWAESC · Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:33 am

BNA
IAH
OMA
PHL
SAT
SMF
YVR

eurotrader85 · Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:58 am

eurotrader85 wrote:
Europe: CPH, DUS, IST, OPO

North America: PHL

South America: LIM

On further reflection missed a few before so updated list below:

Europe: CPH, DUS, IST, OPO

North America: PHL

South America: GIG, LIM

Africa: JNB

Asia: CMB

TR763 · Tue Apr 26, 2022 4:31 pm

PTY (Copa Airlines GRU-PTY-CUN and back)
ATL (Delta GRU-ATL-MCO)
IAD (United GRU-IAD-LAX)
ORD (United GRU-ORD-LAX & LAS-ORD-GRU)
SLC (Delta SEA-SLC-MCO)
FRA (Lufthansa TXL-FRA-GRU)
MAD (Iberia GRU-MAD-FCO)
ZRH (Swiss GRU-ZRH-TXL)

727tiger · Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:47 pm

AMS, CLT, BNA, SLC, BWI

PSAatSAN4Ever · Wed Apr 27, 2022 6:20 pm

In the United States:

PDX (AS, SEA-PDX-SAN)
SLC (DL, SAN-SLC-MSP roundtrip)
SMF (Amtrak + WN)
ABQ (Amtrak + United Express)
MCI (Original Frontier FSM-Old Fayetteville-Joplin-MCI to TWA MCI-LAX in 1974)
STL (TWA LAX-STL-TPA roundtrip)
DFW (too many times to mention, but y'all know what AAirline I was on!)
IAH (several times on CO and UA)
DTW (DL SAN-DTW-BOS)
PIT (US ATL-PIT-SAN)
CLT (US EWR-CLT-SAN and AA SAN-CLT-EWR)
BWI (WN SAN-BWI-BDL)

Europe:

FRA (LH LAX-FRA-STG)

eurotrader85 · Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:50 pm

PSAatSAN4Ever wrote:
In the United States:

Europe:

FRA (LH LAX-FRA-STG)

Did you really go to an Alaskan island from Los Angeles via Frankfurt? :lol:

717atOGG · Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:04 pm

USA: SFO (AS, DL/VS), SLC (DL), DEN (WN), MSP (DL), DTW (DL), JFK (DL), CLT (AA), ATL (DL)

Rest of world: YYZ (AC, this June), FRA (LH)

PSAatSAN4Ever · Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:07 pm

eurotrader85 wrote:
PSAatSAN4Ever wrote:
In the United States:

Europe:

FRA (LH LAX-FRA-STG)

Did you really go to an Alaskan island from Los Angeles via Frankfurt?

Good grief, I did it again...I think my fingers are getting too fat for the keyboard anymore. Like Homer Simpson, gaining extra weight so he can work from home on disability.

Stuttgart is STR, which I always think is Strasbourg, France. But even after checking it, I guess my big fat index finger hit T a second time instead of an R.

It is proof, though, that people read these things. Thanks for picking up on that!

AirKevin · Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:12 am

PSAatSAN4Ever wrote:
eurotrader85 wrote:
PSAatSAN4Ever wrote:
In the United States:

Europe:

FRA (LH LAX-FRA-STG)

Did you really go to an Alaskan island from Los Angeles via Frankfurt?

Good grief, I did it again...I think my fingers are getting too fat for the keyboard anymore. Like Homer Simpson, gaining extra weight so he can work from home on disability.

Stuttgart is STR, which I always think is Strasbourg, France. But even after checking it, I guess my big fat index finger hit T a second time instead of an R.

It is proof, though, that people read these things. Thanks for picking up on that!

Oddly enough, I had a feeling you meant Stuttgart.

trent768 · Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:01 pm

DXB, DOH, HKG and UPG for me.

Some rather weird one:
- CPH: I've been to the city, I've had had stop overs at the airport, but never entered the airport. How? 2 words: Øresund bridge

- SUB: I've landed at the airport like a million time since I was a baby, but never went to the city because we always immediately took a ride to visit my grandma in Malang (~100km away) before they open the IAF airbase to commercial flights. Fast forward 28 years later in 2020, I first stepped my foot in the city. Kinda nice, but it was blazing hot!

- CGK: my own home airport! CGK technically isn't located in Jakarta, but it in the city of Tangerang. Never been to Tangerang my whole life and based on the stories I've heard, hopefully never will ahahaha!

hkore · Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:39 pm

Airports transited through in city never visited

- Colombo in 2022 - Transit Passenger in Colombo Airport 4k : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BAIeyJn7M4

ER757 · Thu Apr 28, 2022 5:57 pm

CLT
PIT
OGG
SLC

AntonioMartin · Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:35 pm

ATL
DFW

Thats it

conaly · Fri Apr 29, 2022 7:44 am

ATL
DTW

CDG
GVA
LYS
OSL

BOM
DEL
RUH

sea13 · Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:15 am

SEA (AS)
SJC (WN)
DFW (AA)
STL (AA)
ORD (AA, UA)
BWI (WN)
CVG (DL)
IAH (UA)

seat1a · Sat Apr 30, 2022 3:55 pm

DFW, HKG

PITingres · Sat Apr 30, 2022 4:37 pm

DFW, IAH, YYC, ICN/GMP (I'm not counting the transit between as a visit to Seoul), SIN, NRT are the only ones that I can think of. NRT will drop off the list this November.

Flanker7 · Sun May 01, 2022 7:09 am

Abu Dhabi
Dubai
Dheli
Denver
ST Louis
Zurich
Montreal
Toronto

acavpics · Sun May 01, 2022 6:25 pm

London, Frankfurt, Munich, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Charlotte, and Toronto
I've transited via LHR and FRA numerous times yet never seen those cities in person (aside from doing an overnight layover at a hotel near LHR once).

davidmem61 · Wed May 04, 2022 2:24 am

AMS, DXB, RUH

Ps762 · Sun May 08, 2022 4:43 am

Hi,

Firstly just to say many thanks and I guess just a couple for me. Not sure why though, I guess when I used to fly more I never really wanted to do connections or if I did would rather stay a few days if I could. Priveledges of leisure travelling during those times maybe? But anyway I guess if curious hopefully:

1. Dallas/DFW. I guess my only real one around the mid-90s I often favoured American Airlines for flying summer trips to the US. I definitely remember changing planes there in the summer of 95 to proceed to Orlando to stay with an old schoolfriend who's family moved there when kids. Lots of Disney visits!

2. I'm not sure if a refuelling stop counts but in January 1996 my Air New Zealand flight from LAX to Nadi in Fiji I think stopped to refuel in the middle of the night at Honolulu/HNL. I think we all had to deplane for that process and I think I snapped a pic of the nice open-style (but very quiet at that time) terminal there. And of course being a big Magnum PI fan I was super-excited and I think tried to step out the door for a few seconds to breathe the air and imagine I was Tom Selleck for a few seconds(!)

Anyway hope that came out ok and with greets and thanks,

Ps762

Boair · Sun May 08, 2022 9:08 am

Not that much:
IAH, ZRH, ATL, LDE, LAX, LIG, FRA, PMI and maybe I could add BVA since it's not really Paris anymore but that's a grey zone

Now they are also a few times I did visit the city arriving by bus/train/car whatever and transited at the airport but I never left any of these airports:
LIS, AGA, FAO, BOD, RAK, AMS, LIN

777Jet · Mon May 09, 2022 2:03 am

MIM, MEL, AKL, HNL, SFO, DEN, ORD, ATL, DTW, MSY, TPE, PVG, PEK.

angusjt · Mon May 16, 2022 12:00 am

Bangkok (BKK) & Ballina (BNK)

The latter one is worth noting as I originally planned to visit Ballina for a holiday but had to cancel as something came up in Melbourne - it ended up being cheaper to book a flight from BNK-MEL then to cancel or move the SYD-BNK flight, so I ended up travelling from Sydney to Melbourne via Byron Bay.

OzarkD9S · Mon May 16, 2022 4:59 pm

ATL, BNA, CLT, HOU, DAL, ABQ, PHX, MSP, SEA, PIT, CLE, CVG, IND, MCI, YYZ, MEM and EWR.*

Multi-stop flights where I did not get off the plane and have never visited the city:
SPI, ICT, CMI MWA

*I have been to NYC, usually by way of LGA and once JFK. I have never visited Newark itself.

nkops · Thu May 19, 2022 4:10 pm

MCI , DFW and DAL, MEM , GSO , ABE , PIT, EWR , JAX

bols59 · Fri May 20, 2022 12:30 pm

ORD August 1977 (EWR - SEA) United Airlines
CPH (HEL - SEA return) January 1980 SAS
DEN (Stapleton) (SEA - IAH return) July 1974, July 1975 Continental
SLC December 1982/January 1983 (SEA - IAH return) Western Airlines
SLC, ABQ February/March 1986 (SEA - ELP return) Western Airlines

FlyingSicilian · Fri May 20, 2022 10:41 pm

Lots of IAH, come say hi for a few hours and drink with us 8-)

For me Auckland, Seattle, and Zurich are the only three that come to mind.

flyingclrs727 · Sat May 21, 2022 2:48 am

ATL, BWI, ORD, MIA, PTY, FRA, MUC

flyingclrs727 · Sat May 21, 2022 2:56 am

FlyingSicilian wrote:
Lots of IAH, come say hi for a few hours and drink with us

For me Auckland, Seattle, and Zurich are the only three that come to mind.

The only bar I know about at IAH that is not airside is the bar in the Marriott hotel located between terminals B and C.

phugoid1982 · Sat May 21, 2022 2:25 pm

N. America

LAX,CLT,STL,MIA,FLL,OAK,DTW,DFW

Europe
LHR,BRU

Africa
CAI

Asia
BOM

masi1157 · Sat May 21, 2022 3:56 pm

I just thought of two more, that I forgot earlier:

masi1157 wrote:
North America:
....

LIR on 5C (Nature Air)
SFJ on GL

I had a stop at LIR on the way to TNO. I also changed busses in Liberia a few times, but I never visited the city.

For SFJ one could argue that there is no city to be visited. If you saw the airport you saw almost all.

Gruß, masi1157

Impacto · Sat May 21, 2022 11:54 pm

Africa
ADD
CAI
LFW

Middle East
JED

Europe
AMS
BRU
FCO
FRA
IST

North America
DEN
DFW

Fuling · Sun May 22, 2022 12:20 am

ADL: QF MEL-ADL-DRW
MNL: TK/PR IST-MNL-MEL
YYZ: AC YEG-YYZ-LGA
VIE: OS ATH-VIE-HAM
DOH: QR PVG-DOH-DXB

theasianguy · Mon May 23, 2022 5:58 am

CLT, DTW, YVR, TPE. Honestly a much shorter list than I'd thought.

N1120A · Mon May 23, 2022 7:31 pm

Hmm, this is a good one:

CLT (a bunch of times too)
LUN (flew in on a Cessna 402, out on a Malawian Q400 - that was cool)
BKO (Didn't leave the plane in either direction between DSS and ADD)
VNX (transited to a Helicopter to Benguerra Island)
CLE (Just once, oddly)
SAL
SJO
PTY
YEG
DOH (a bunch of times)
KTN
LLW
TPA
MCO
MIA

bluecrew · Tue May 24, 2022 6:43 am

I've been through NRT probably 20 times, and I've never left the airport.
I'm clearly missing something here... it's embarrassing. Haven't been through in years, but it's a vacation goal in the next couple of years. COVID screwed the plan up.

BTVB6Flyer · Tue May 24, 2022 8:08 pm

AUS, PTY, OAK, ATL, DTW, CLE, CLT, FLL

mooseofspruce · Wed May 25, 2022 12:49 am

In order of known occurrence:

IAH (SFO-IAH-MCO and back in 2002)
BOS (SFO-BOS-LHR in 2005 and SFO-BOS-BWI in 2019)
DFW (LGW-DFW-SFO in 2005)
CHC (AKL-CHC-ZQN in 2005)
NRT (SJC-NRT-MNL and back in 2005-2006)
FRA (SFO-FRA-LJU in 2014)
ARN (OAK-ARN-CPH and ORY-ARN-OAK in 2016)
OSL (OAK-OSL-ORY in 2017)

NRT almost made it off this list with a vacation planned during March 2020, and you know the rest.

STLflyer · Wed May 25, 2022 3:05 am

FRA, SLC, MSP, SFO, ATL, CVG, MIA, DFW, PHX, MEL

I had all day layovers in IAH and CPH and went out into the city to explore it, but I’ve never spent the night there. Is that a visit?

MSP will get removed from that list in a few months

WildcatYXU · Fri May 27, 2022 2:10 am

Europe:
FRA, IST, LHR, LIS, WAW
North America:
EWR, IAH, MIA, ORD, SFO, YXE
Caribbean:
SJU, STT

DEN was on this list as well until a recent project at Fort Collins.

timpdx · Sat May 28, 2022 5:42 pm

Been to so many airports, but can only think of 4 in this criteria

ARN
SAL
TPE
OMA

LizardmanXD · Mon Jun 20, 2022 12:30 pm

Atlanta and Chicago

Venn555 · Mon Jun 20, 2022 1:44 pm

GAU, CCU, DOH, ZRH, DXB, IXC

ACDC8 · Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:09 am

KEF, IAD, DTW, SLC, DEN

TWA772LR · Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:15 pm

ELP OKC and DTW

Technically STL. I drove there before with my when I was little but all of my air travel there has been for connections.

davescj · Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:50 am

NBO (Nairobi)
SLC
DTW
DFW
PRG (Prague)
CVG
AMS
BOM (overnighted 2x, never saw the city)
MIA
GDL (Guadalajara)
MTY (Monterrey, MX)
ATL (overnight once)
SEA
MCI (Flown in/out, never saw city
ICT (Wichita, flown in/out never in city)
FUK (changed planes only)

scottyraven · Sat Jun 25, 2022 4:31 am

eta unknown wrote:
A poll about transit stops- airports you've transited, but haven't visited the area. Please treat examples like JFK/LGA/EWR as one destination: NYC

North America: AUS, DEN, IAH
South America: RGL

Europe: DUS, WAW

Africa: BJM, KGL, GRJ

Middle East: KWI, MCT

Asia: DAC

Australia: DBO

For me, only one...HNL, on my way to MNL via NRT..... ill just say the airport in HNL made MNL look like SIN. HNL is the single worst airport ive ever been in.

388crazy · Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:36 pm

I am including airports where I stayed at airport hotels but didn't see anything other than the hotel.

North America: CHS, CUU, DEN, DFW, DTW, IAD, IAH, MFE, MSP

Asia: AMM, AUH, BKK, IKA, KUL, PEK, PVG

Africa: CMN, NBO, TNR

Europe: BCN, BHX, BIO, DUB, FCO, FRA, KRK, LGW, LHR, LIS, MUC, MXP, SAW (is this Europe or Asia?)

Australia + Pacific: AKL, NOU, SYD

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